Tim Reid (politician)

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Timothy Escott Reid
Ontario MPP
In office
1967–1971
Preceded byLouis Hodgson
Succeeded byMargaret Birch
ConstituencyScarborough East
Personal details
Born
Timothy Escott Reid

(1936-02-21) February 21, 1936 (age 88)
Toronto, Ontario
Political partyLiberal
SpouseJulyan Fancott (1962–2012; her death)
Children2
Residence(s)Toronto, Ontario
Alma materTrinity College, Toronto
Yale University
Christ Church, Oxford
OccupationPolitician, civil servant, educator

Timothy Escott Reid (born February 21, 1936), is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Scarborough East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1971. He was a member of the Ontario Liberal Party.[1]

Background

Reid was born in

Hamilton Tiger Cats in the Canadian Football League and played in the infamous 1962 50th Grey Cup game known as the "Fog Bowl".[3] In the fall of 1962, he was hired by the University of Toronto as an instructor in Canadian economic history. In 1963, he became the Assistant to the President of York University and an assistant professor of Economics at York University. During his time as a faculty member at York University, he was editor of the books Contemporary Canada: Readings in Economics (1969) and, with his wife Julyan Reid, Student Power and the Canadian Campus (1969).[4]

Politics

In 1965 he ran as the Federal

28th Legislative Assembly of Ontario and as the Critic for Education and University Affairs.[5] In early 1968, Reid was instrumental in forming a "Draft Pierre Trudeau for Prime Minister" committee and worked to build support in Ontario for Trudeau's successful run for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.[6] In the 1971 general election, Reid lost to PC candidate Margaret Birch
by 670 votes.

Later life

After his defeat in the 1971 general election, Reid took a position with the

OECD in Paris as a Principal Administrator in the Manpower and Social Affairs Directorate.[citation needed] In 1974, he returned to Canada and took a position in the federal civil service as the Director of the Treasury Board's Planning Branch. Reid held increasingly senior positions, in a variety of federal Departments, culminating in terms as Assistant Deputy Minister at the Departments of Regional Economic Expansion, Industry, and Tourism.[citation needed
]

In 1985, Reid was appointed as Dean of the School of Business Management at

Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto.[citation needed] While in that position, he was also served as a Member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) and he served, for one term, as a part-time Commissioner of the Ontario Securities Commission.[citation needed
]

From 1989 to 1998, Reid was the President of the 170,000-member Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canada's largest and most representative national business association. In this position, he played a role in the public debate over the federal budget deficit, and the potential economic impact of the 1995 Quebec referendum on separation.[7]

Reid served on many boards of directors, including VIA Rail Canada from 2000 to 2006, and as an Alumni Governor on the Governing Council of the University of Toronto from 2002 to 2011.[8]

Personal life

In 1962, Reid met and married Julyan Fancott whilst he was at Oxford and she at the London School of Economics. They were married for 50 years until her death in 2012, and had two children.

References

  1. ^ Guide parlementaire canadien
  2. ^ University of Toronto Varsity Blues Sports Hall of Fame, 1993.
  3. ^ The fascinating life of footballer-turned-MPP Tim Reid TVO.org
  4. ^ Student Power and the Canadian Campus Connexions.org
  5. ^ Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Timothy Escott Reid, MPP
  6. ^ Peacock, Donald (1968), Journey to Power: The Story of a Canadian Election, The Ryerson Press, 215-218
  7. ^ Man of All Trades Archived 2012-01-14 at the Wayback Machine|Blue and White, the University of Toronto Magazine, June 2011
  8. ^ University of Toronto Governing Council Membership Information

External links

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